GSE/SGER Women Working: Thinking, Creating, Making Science

纽约研究生中心和女权主义者出版社将通过出版和分发一系列名为《妇女工作：思考、创造、创造科学》的高中女生丛书，培养年轻妇女对科学的兴趣。这12卷将集中在世界上的工作女性科学家，无论是在传统的领域和非传统的。作为美国的竞争，在全球市场的思想，技术和行业，这是比以往任何时候都更重要的是，科学教育在学校鼓励所有学生的人才，妇女和男子。研究表明，女孩没有平等的机会接受科学教育，部分原因是教师和家长继续受到陈规定型观念的影响，使女生望而却步。妇女在科学中的形象，无论是在生活中还是在课程材料中，仍然是需要的。到高中结束时，学习科学课程的女孩人数大幅下降，到上大学时，许多年轻女性对自己失去信心，特别是对自己的数学和科学能力失去信心。2005年2月，美国物理研究所发表了一份关于物理学和天文学领域妇女的报告，发现虽然近一半的高中物理学生是女孩，但只有四分之一的物理学学士学位授予妇女。探索这一系列图书的出版是一个潜在的高收益项目，使用高风险的方法。 这项小小的探索性工作将把对这些问题的研究与传记结合起来，把研究成果嵌入针对高中生的流行传记中。 该项目预计将通过树立明显的榜样和提高对妇女如何利用科学的认识，提高女科学家的知名度。 妇女工作：思考，创造，使科学将探讨社会期望如何转化为妇女的存在或不存在的科学。探索性和初步工作将结合联合收割机的投入，从科学家，科学作家，妇女研究专家，专家对妇女在科学和工程（CWIT在UMD巴尔的摩县），专业协会（APS，AWM，AAS，WIN），教育工作者（NSTA），图书馆员（纽约公共图书馆）、工业（欧莱雅）、和学生，以便制定一个战略，嵌入研究的传记，仍然使他们有吸引力的阅读。 该方法既不是研究性学习，也不是课程开发工作;它是如何使用流行写作来突出复杂的研究和劳动力问题的创造性探索。女权主义出版社的书籍通过专业机构在全国范围内发行，并利用印刷媒体、电视和广播进行专业宣传和营销。此外，该项目还将通过与专业科学协会、教师协会和工业界合作，以及通过派遣女科学家-在其职业生涯早期-与高中生谈论她们的科学经验，寻求非传统的国家传播渠道。除了在学校和图书馆分发和使用这些书籍外，还将通过在女权主义出版社网站（www.feministpress.org）上张贴文章以及通过CD、DVD和录像提供材料，对科学和工程多样性的重大国家研究证实，大众媒体重塑科学家和工程师“面貌”的迫切需要。 这一努力在其影响范围内具有潜在的变革性。 它可以驱散继续将科学描绘成男性职业的陈规定型观念，并以今天真正的女科学家的现实取而代之。主要目标是激发高中女生对科学的热情和兴趣，但它也会影响教育工作者、家长、科学家和工程师。

The Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY) and the Feminist Press will cultivate young women's interest in the sciences through the publishing and dissemination of a series of books for high school girls called Women Working: Thinking, Creating, Making Science. These 12 volumes will focus on the world of working women scientists, both in traditional fields and in nontraditional ones.As the U.S. competes in a global marketplace of ideas, technology, and industry, it is more important than ever that science education in the schools encourage the talents of all students, women as well as men. Studies show that girls do not have equal access to science instruction, in part because stereotypes continue to inform instructors and parents and discourage female students. Images of women in science-both in life and in curricular materials-continue to be needed. Intellectual Merit By the end of high school, the numbers of girls in science courses drop significantly, and by the time they go to college, many young women lose confidence in themselves and especially in their ability to do math and science. In February 2005 the American Institute of Physics issued a report on women in physics and astronomy, finding that while nearly half of high school physics students are girls, only one fourth of bachelor's degrees earned in physics are awarded to women. Exploring the publication of this series of books is a potentially high gain project using a high risk approach. The small exploratory effort will fuse research on the issues with biography, embedding research findings in popular biographies aimed at high school students. The project expects to increase the visibility of women scientists through the creation of visible role models and awareness about how women use science. Women Working: Thinking, Creating, Making Science will explore how social expectations translate to women's presence or absence in the sciences. The exploratory and preliminary work will combine inputs from scientists, science writers, women's studies experts, experts on women in science and engineering (CWIT at UMD Baltimore County), professional associations (APS, AWM, AAS, WIN), educators (NSTA), librarians (New York Public Library), industry (L'Oreal), and students in order to develop a strategy for embedding research in the biographies and still make them appealing reading. The approach is neither a research study nor a curriculum development effort; it is a creative exploration of how to use popular writing to highlight complex research and workforce issues. Broader ImpactFeminist Press books are distributed nationally through a professional agency, and publicized and marketed professionally, using print media, television, and radio. The project will in addition pursue nontraditional channels of national dissemination through partnering with professional science societies, teacher associations, and industry; and through sending women scientists--early in their careers--to speak with high school students about their experience in science. In addition to the distribution and usage of the books in schools and libraries, materials will be delivered through postings on the website of the Feminist Press (www.feministpress.org), and through CDs, DVDs and videos.Major national studies of diversity in science and engineering have affirmed the critical need for popular media to reshape "the face" of scientists and engineers. The effort is potentially transformative in its reach. It could disperse the stereotypes that continue to portray science as a male profession, and replace them with the realities of actual women scientists today. The main goal is to generate enthusiasm and interest for science among high school girls, but it will influence educators, parents, and scientists and engineers too.